On 25/03/14 16:07, Ben Pfaff wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 03:44:44PM +0000, Anoob Soman wrote:
On 25/03/14 15:29, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Anoob Soman <anoob.so...@citrix.com> wrote:
Hi,
Does rhel openvswitch deployments required fake bond interfaces to be
created. rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs uses --fake-iface for
creating bonds (add-bond). I have sent a patch "[PATCH] rhel: Remove
creation of fake bond interface" to remove --fake-iface and add --may-exist
instead. Ignore my patch if fake bond interfaces are required.
The "--fake-iface" as an option in the RHEL ifup script came with its
first version. Does its presence hurt any of your use cases?
No, it doesn't. But, AFAIK --fake-iface was add to support older
version of XenServer requiring a bond interface for some legacy
reasons, newer version of XenSever doesn't use --fake-iface. This
means --fake-iface is not used by anyone (and hoping rhel doesn't
need it either), and can be removed from code.
I think OVS still supports XenServer old enough that --fake-iface is
needed.
Yes. XenSever 6.0.2 still uses --fake-iface, but openvswitch in XS6.0.2
is taken from vlan-maint branch. XS6.1 onwards doesn't use --fake-iface.
Removal of --fake-iface from the code would happen in master and might
end up in OVS 2.x branch and this should not affect vlan-maint or any
other LTS branch, unless we have intention of back porting this change
to vlan-maint.
My intention, of removing --fake-iface from rhel/etc_sysconfig_ifup-ovs
is, if rhel doesn't want a fake bond interface why should it create one.
--fake-iface was created for compatibility reasons and should only be
used if it is required to.
-Anoob
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